
Kirsten KoopUniversité Grenoble Alpes · Institut d'Urbanisme et de Géographie Alpine
Kirsten Koop
PhD
geographer, Université Grenoble Alpes
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Introduction
I am geographer and working at the Institute of Urbanism and Alpine Geography of Grenoble Alps University. I am doing research in Critical Development Geography, Social Innovations Studies and and geographies of sustainability transitions. My current research project is on 'Transformative social innovation in mountain regions' - TransforMont (Labex ITTEM, Grenoble Alps University)'.
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Driven by the need for radical change in our practices and values to escape crises, studies on sustainability transitions have multiplied in recent years. Such radical transformations are situated in space. A spatial approach towards transformative processes can thus inform about the conditions and contexts of such dynamics. Recent publications on...
Les régions rurales du sud de la France attirent, depuis les années 1970, des néo-‐ruraux contestant la société capitaliste et expérimentant une vie alternative. L’Ardèche méridionale est devenue un des haut-‐lieux d’initiatives alternatives au système productiviste dominant. Que ce soit l’éco-‐construction, l’agroécologie, l’économie sociale, l...
Ce volume se comprend comme une contribution au défi qui se pose aux Sciences sociales et humaines d’appréhender les transformations sociétales profondes - conçues comme nécessaires pour faire face aux crises multiples contemporaines. Le chapitre 1 part de l’axiome que la transition des sociétés (post)industrielles vers la soutenabilité consiste en...
Citizens' initiatives for sustainable lifestyles have been multiplying all over Europe since the beginning of the 21st century. The literature emphasises that they bear visions, values and practices which slightly differ from the dominant societal model. Nevertheless, the crucial question of the capacity of such local initiatives to transform terri...
La géographie du développement a-t-elle encore une raison d’être ? Ce champ disciplinaire
dédié à l’analyse des problèmes de développement des Suds s’est fortement fragmenté, voire effrité, durant ces dernières décennies. Aujourd’hui, la géographie de la mondialisation, celle des risques et celle des villes, la géographie critique et d’autres champ...
As in many EU countries, initiatives in agroecology, eco-construction and eco-housing, recycling, energy transition, local currencies, local food networks and cooperatives have been mushrooming across France since the beginning of the 21st century, with a particular increase since the global financial crisis. In the wake of growing critique towards...
In the context of globalisation, the urban phenomenon is a type of organisation that currently structures most of the global population. Cities are seen as the spatial concentration of global production and consumption processes and the nodal points of global exchanges. Regional economic studies explain such (economic) concentration processes by an...
Dans un contexte de mondialisation, alors que les modes de régulation
se structurent de plus en plus à l’échelle internationale, la prise
de décision sur les enjeux sociétaux fondamentaux tend de plus en plus
à échapper aux acteurs locaux et régionaux. En même temps, en raison
du désengagement des États, un nombre croissant de responsabilités
sont...
L a loi de 2013 relative à l'enseignement su-périeur et à la recherche indique que « le service public de l'enseignement supérieur participe, par la présence de ses établissements, au développement et à la cohésion sociale du territoire ; l'Université doit par ailleurs adopter des mesures visant à promouvoir et développer des interactions entre sci...
This paper discusses the increasing interest in the territorial
dimension of rural development in the Global South. Adapting the local
development approach of the 1970s to the changing context of globalization
and to the competitiveness discourse, mainstream development agencies and
scholars currently see territorial development (TD) as an attracti...
La Responsabilité Sociale des entreprises (RSE) s'inscrit aujourd'hui pleinement dans les discours internationaux du développement durable et de l'inclusion sociale. C'est notamment depuis la conférence de Rio en 1992 et l'attention accordée par l'Union européenne aux questions de cohésion sociale que le nombre de projets RSE, mettant l'accent sur...
This chapter retraces the factors having contributed to the economic emergence of Mauritius, using a multidimensional and multiscalar approach. In a second step, the limits of the social sustainability of the economic boom are discussed.
Presentation and ex-ante evaluation of the pilot activities of MORECO project partners.
C'est ce constat de l'inversion des flux de concepts scientifiques entre l'occident et les Suds, parallèlement à leur transfert « classique » du Nord vers les Suds (lequel n'a pas cessé), qui a mené le groupe de travail « Les Suds dans la mondialisation » de l'UMR PACTE à Grenoble à se pencher sur la question de la circulation des concepts entre No...
L'émergence du concept de développement local en France a accompagné la période de transformation économique qui a suivi le premier choc pétrolier de 1973. Il s'est traduit par la mobilisation de ressources locales, pour répondre aux besoins des populations, dans un contexte où celles-ci disposaient de peu d'autonomie. Progressivement, le concept e...
The project's research focuses on educational and Life Long Learning (LLL) - rather than social or artistic issues. The main questions analysed in this research project are the following: do cross-border movements of artists generate LLL processes? Do they boost creativity and innovation? How do they affect learner-teacher dynamics? And can non-for...
Since decolonisation, a succession of development models has been transferred from France towards North African countries. The failure of the industrial development approach on national level opened the way for local development in the late 1980’s, and the power of globalisation dynamics recently gave birth to the “territorial development” model. T...
In May 2009, the government of Mauritius made the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of enterprises obligatory. Each firm operating on the Mauritian territory, if foreign or local one, has to dedicate 2% of its annual benefit towards community development from then on. This intervention of the government in an activity of enterprises which is, b...
How do mobilities favour learning effect for artists? What is their nature? Do they match a classical approach of learning in linguistic or technical terms or do mobility relied learning effects have secondary, not intended effect on creativity and culture? In which way (financial, human) do artists build their relationship to mobility? Do specific...
La géographie du développement a eu sa période de gloire avec notamment Yves Lacoste en France et Dieter Senghaas, Ulrich Menzel, Fred Scholz en Allemagne. L'approche " dépendantiste " née au sein de la CEPAL et reprise par ces scientifiques y a été intégrée dans une multitude d'études et d'analyses jusque dans les années 1980. En Allemagne, l'émer...
« Marché émergent » (Kappel 2000), « miracle » (Alladin 1993), ou encore « petit tigre » (Grégoire 2004) de l'océan Indien, telles sont, depuis le début des années 1990, les désignations pour l'Ile Maurice dans la littérature scientifique. Présentant encore toutes les caractéristiques classiques d'un pays « sous-développé » à l'aube de son indépend...
One of the main reasons of the extraordinary economic success of the island of Mauritius is its cultural diversity. Indeed, the Mauritian population has European, African, Indian and Chinese origins. Encouraged by the first foreign direct investments into its export processing zone, every ethno-cultural group participated in the economic developmen...
In the last two decades, development strategies applied to infranational level have increased. In the “Era of globalisation” researchers have discovered the concept of territory, or “region” as the main entity of development processes. “The integration of territories” in global economic networks seems to have definitely replaced the ancient develop...
L'évolution des inégalités de développement dans le monde a suscité de fortes controverses. Celles-ci résultent autant de la nouveauté des processus de la mondialisation que de la diversité des méthodologies utilisées. Depuis quelques années néanmoins les chercheurs, notamment les économètres, semblent s'accorder sur un consensus minimal : on obser...
Given their slight landmasses and lack of resources, small island states enjoy only
limited opportunities for achieving nutritional self-sufficiency. Most of them are
burdened, moreover, by a heavy colonial heritage. The introduction of the plantation
system (mostly in the form of sugar cane plantations) meant that the vast majority
of arable land...
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Mauritius in an era of globalization. A model of catch-up development?
Mauritius is often quoted as one of the rare examples of successful integration of a country of the South in the global market. Indeed, in 1980 direct foreign investments, especially in the textile industry, were able to set in motion extraordinary economic development on the is...
The island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean is often referred to as an example of successful integration into the world market. In the 1980's, Foreign Direct Investment, particularly in the textile and clothing industry, lead to an exceptional economic rise over the island and poverty was rapidly decreasing. However, continued liberalisation of the...
In West Africa, the increasing pressure on land requires an effective land management. Especially urban centres are characterised by land speculation, land disputes, unauthorised housing and environmental deterioration. While the traditional landholders still allocate urban plots in accordance with customary land laws, governmental land management...
Given their slight landmasses and lack of resources, small island states enjoy only limited opportunities for achieving nutritional self-sufficiency. Most of them are burdened, moreover, by a heavy colonial heritage. The introduction of the planta- tion system (mostly in the form of sugar cane plantations) meant that the vast ma- jority of arable l...
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Projects (3)
Analyse the potential of transformative social innovations in peripheral mountain regions for regional socio-ecological transitions.